Cover the White House? This professor wishes journalists would prefer not to.
Late last month, White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders was asked to leave a small restaurant in Lexington, Virginia by the owner. “This feels like the moment in our democracy… Read more »
Ebony magazine is leaving Chicago after a seventy-two-year run
The news that Ebony magazine is cutting staff and relocating its office from Chicago to Los Angeles has locals mourning the end of an era. The move, reported earlier this… Read more »
Employment of climate change denier Bret Stephens prompts New York Times subscribers to get their news elsewhere
Bret Stephens, the new opinion columnist at the New York Times, has some opinions about stuff. For one, he doesn’t really believe that climate change is real. He’s also been… Read more »
The New York Times attributes a rise in digital subscriptions to Trump
Admit it: you’ve probably found the New York Times’ homepage ads declaring that “the truth is more important now than ever” disconcerting, right? Not disconcerting enough to make you unsubscribe,… Read more »
Ecuadoran government fines journalists for what they didn’t say
While governments around the world have been known to crack down on journalists for covering stories that, in one way or another, threaten their authority, it’s rarer to hear about… Read more »
The New York Times points readers to notable political writing on the left and right
Last month, we wrote about a New York Times article focused on differing approaches by media on the left and the right to covering Michael T. Flynn’s resignation as national… Read more »
Breitbart, allegedly facing advertising woes, could become more insidious
Efforts to push companies to pull their advertising dollars from Breitbart seem to actually be working. In the past week, various reports have come out to indicate that the boycott… Read more »
Writers to #resist at AWP
If Peter Clark’s report on Winter Institute was any indication, the bookselling community is hardly feeling complacent in the face of the drastically shifting American political landscape. The same thing can… Read more »
Reuters publishes guidelines for reporting in the Trump era
As the media continues to grapple with how to cover a president who, whether he’s a media savant or not, manages to divert every ounce of their attention to himself,… Read more »
White House breaks precedent with shallow press release
Last week on MobyLives Julia Fleischaker expanded on the idea, posited by NYU’s Jay Rosen, that Donald Trump’s success at manipulating the media has less to do with talent and more… Read more »